Characters |
FEATURE: Daredevil [Matthew Michael Murdock]; GUESTS: Battling Jack Murdock (1st; DD's father; Death); Franklin "Foggy" Nelson (1st); Karen Page (1st); VILLAINS: The Fixer (1st; Death); Slade |
Synopsis |
Matt Murdock saves a blind man from an oncoming truck but is struck blind himself by a radioactive canister during the rescue; The radioactivity heightens Matt's other senses and gives him an uncanny radar sense; Matt graduates college and begins practicing law with his college roommate Foggy; Matt's father, a boxer, is killed by the Fixer after he refuses to throw a fight; Matt designs a costume and a billy club (from his cane) and takes his derogatory childhood nickname "Daredevil"; DD tracks down the Fixer and the man who shot his father. |
Genre |
superhero |
Script |
Stan Lee |
Pencils |
Bill Everett |
Inks |
Bill Everett; Steve Ditko; Sol Brodsky |
Letters |
Sam Rosen |
Notes |
Cover of Amazing Spider-Man #1 is re-printed on the splash page. |
Reprinted |
in Marvel Super-Heroes Special (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (October 1966); in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1975 series) #nn; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #17; in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics Revised Edition (Marvel, 1997 series) #nn; in Fantastic Firsts (Marvel, 1999 series) #[nn]; in Essential Daredevil (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002); in Incredibile Devil, L' (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #1; in Marvel Mini Comic Book Daredevil #1 (Marvel, 2003 series) #nn |